When I installed the latest installment in Mac OSX - the Mountain Lion - I experienced some problems getting Eclipse to work I also lost most of my Android developer files (but I still have my projects). I suspect this is due to the choice of removing the /Developer and move the XCode and other Apple developer tools (I placed my Android tools here).
I have now installed the latest version of Eclipse and the problem still seems to be around. There are errors in all my projects and I get an error message prompting:
The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced
from required .class files
I tried to check the Java class-path both in Eclipse and in my terminal and these seems to be OK. java and javac both run in my terminal and there is a valid path to the java source files in Eclipse (Under Preferences, Java, Installed JREs). That being said I'm not an expert in Eclipse so there may be that I have misunderstood how this problem ought to be solved. Anyone here with similar problems or who know the cure?
Make sure that you have a valid JRE or JDK defined in the Java Build Path of your project. Right-click on your project, select Properties... and then Java Build Path.
I had this problem moving a Maven project from Eclipse to RAD. I had a JSP file that worked in Tomcat and JBoss, but threw a NullPointerException in WebSphere on the form definition during the compile.
Anyway, after transforming the Maven project into an Ant project (mvn ant:ant), I imported the Ant project into RAD and got this error. The fix:
Open the Java Build Path, selecting the Libraries tab.
Find the JRE System Library and remove it.
Add the JRE System Library.
Goofy, but it works. It must reset some property in a file. I don't know if the problem is the older version of Eclipse or RAD.
After updating my Android SDK to make Appcelerator Titanium happy, I started getting "java.lang.Object cannot be resolved" for my Android projects in (non-Titanium) Eclipse.
I updated all dependencies in Eclipse, and the error healed after a restart of Eclipse.
I had that error almost every time I launched Eclipse for the first time; if I close and then re-open Eclipse, the error is gone.
I found this solution useful, though (I've copied here to protect the link, credit goes to the original author):
In Eclipse go to Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs.
Select the currently active JRE/JDK and press the Edit button.
Select the rt.jar and change its position in the list of JRE system libraries (e.g. press the Up button once).
Confirm all changes, clean and rebuild the workspace.
The next time you face the problem reposition the rt.jar again (or reset the order by pressing the Restore Default button).
please select your installed system jre version from java build path.
Try the following and problem will go away
Close the project and reopen it.
Clean the project (It will rebuild the buildpath hence reconfiguring with the JDK libraries)
OR
Delete and Re-import the project and if necessary do the above steps again.
This is an annoying Eclipse Bug which seems to bite now and then. See http://dev-answers.blogspot.de/2009/06/eclipse-build-errors-javalangobject.html for a possible solution, otherwise try the following;
Close the project and reopen it.
Clean the project (It will rebuild the buildpath hence reconfiguring with the JDK libraries)
OR
Delete and Re-import the project and if necessary do the above steps again.
The better cure is to try NetBeans instead of Eclipse
I got this error and what I had to do was remove the JRE from the Window/Preferences/Java/Installed JREs and re-add it. This somehow cleared up eclipse's cache and rebuilt the project successfully. To get rid of the error in the file-editor I also had to close it and open the file once again.
My problem was that I had in Eclipse: Window / Preferences... and then in the tree on the left Java / Installed JREs: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7
I changed to: c:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7
It solved my problem.
I had the same issue and none of the above solutions worked for me.
Then I realized than the library (libs) folder was missing in the project. Once i added the libs folder and the corresponding Jar file, the issue was resolved..
If your project specific (or if not applicable, workspace default) JDK/JRE is being referenced correctly and you've just begun to get this issue out of the blue: restart Eclipse.
Unfortunately, "restart Eclipse" is one of the standard troubleshooting steps when a project won't build. Eclipse even has a dedicated entry under the File menu.
I had to add the JDK under the build path. After adding the correct build path it worked.
I just had to restart eclipse, and the error went away. Strange.
I solved this by pointing my eclipse to the jre available in jdk.
This error caused by invalid sdk is pointing in your project.properties file of your project.
project.properties -> target=android-19 . change to version which is installed in your eclipse.The error will be gone.
I had the same issue after moving from JRE7 to JDK7. Finally I had to remove the JRE7 configuration from the Eclipse preferences and then add the following two lines to the eclipse.ini file.
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin\javaw.exe
I had this problem, and I understood that Eclipse has automatically imported a core reference, instead of the reference for the project I needed.
Deleted the import, and rearranged it, and everything worked fine.
Same problem facing Me
Project->properties->Android
And select the api level and also go in java build path and check some external jar file path if we already add in it.update the jar file path
On "The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced
from required .class files":
I found my project had 2 meta-inf.java files in 2 different directories with the same 'module ' on line one (a copy/paste error).
Once this was corrected, I cleared the meta-inf.java file with the issue, rebuilding it line by line, guided by Eclipse, until I had a working module configuration.
Related
I just installed Eclipse Oxygen and tried to open an existing project into the workbench but I get this error:
The project was not built since its build path is incomplete. Cannot
find the class file for java.lang.Object. Fix the build path then try
building this project
I tried right clicking on the project - went to Properties - Java Build Path - Libraries - Add Library - JRE System Library and selected Workbench default JRE (jre1.8.0_60).
I then cleaned and rebuilt the project but it then causes more errors to come up like:
ActionBar cannot be resolved to a type
Activity cannot be resolved to a variable
AdapterView cannot be resolved to a type
ArrayAdapter cannot be resolved to a type
Here is what made the error disappear for me:
Close eclipse, open up a terminal window and run:
$ mvn clean eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
Are you using Maven? If so,
Right-click on the project, Build Path and go to Configure Build Path
Click the libraries tab. If Maven dependencies are not in the list, you need to add it.
Close the dialog.
To add it:
Right-click on the project, Maven → Disable Maven Nature
Right-click on the project, Configure → Convert to Maven Project.
And then clean
Edit 1:
If that doesn't resolve the issue try right-clicking on your project and select properties. Select Java Build Path → Library tab. Look for a JVM. If it's not there, click to add Library and add the default JVM. If VM is there, click edit and select the default JVM. Hopefully, that works.
Edit 2:
You can also try going into the folder where you have all your projects and delete the .metadata for eclipse (be aware that you'll have to re-import all the projects afterwards! Also all the environment settings you've set would also have to be redone). After it was deleted just import the project again, and hopefully, it works.
In Eclipse, Right click Project -> Maven -> Update Project. It fixed errors in my project.
I'm also using Eclipse Oxygen, migrated from Mars. I faced the same error. I deleted .metadata, .recommenders folders and added projects from archive and issue is solved. I also use Android Studio but i like Eclipse much more.
At my system the Java Runtime JAR file jrt-fs.jar was not found because it was in the wrong directory. This file should be located in the "lib" subfolder. If you installed Java at "C:\Temp\java" the file should be here at C:\Temp\java\lib\jrt-fs.jar .
These are the steps to make jrt-fs.jar available to Eclipse:
Window / Preferences -> the "Preferences" Window opens
Select in the left menu: Java / Installed JREs
Press the [Add...] Button -> A window opens
Select "Standard VM" - The window "JRE Definition" opens.
Enter your path information:
JRE home = "C:\Temp\java"
JRE name = "MyJRE"
Select [Add External JARs...] to link the jrt-fs.jar
JRE system libaries: "C:\Temp\java\lib\jrt-fs.jar"
It worked for me with OpenJDK12 and Eclipse 2019-09 (4.13.0).
Eclipse reported me this error:
The project was not built since its build path is incomplete. Cannot find the class file for java.lang.Object. Fix the build path then try building this project
I had faced this problem. I added the C:\Users\Office 2\android-sdks\platforms\android-19\android.jar to the Java Build Path's Library. And the project started to run again.
The problem occurred due to my carelessness. Yesterday night I was updating the Android SDK, and at the same time I tried to run the project, while the SDK Manager was uncompressing the system image. The Project couldn't start and the error occurred.
I tried all the methods given by others. But nothing worked. It solved when I added the android.jar to the library.
I guessed it that android library is missing. not the Java, when I saw the errors only at the android methods and imports. But when I read the posts, I got confused and wasted some time trying wrong way.
I had faced the same issue and tried different solutions, I have reinstalled my JDK 11 and restarted the machine, after that the issue gets resolved.
I got this out of the blue in a workspace that was working properly before. This problem seems to indicate that the project configuration somehow got corrupted.
Restarting Eclipse didn't help, but in the same vein as the answers dealing with Maven, regenerating the Eclipse project config with:
./gradle eclipse
or
./gradlew eclipse
if you use the wrapper, solved this problem for me.
I have similar issue when importing Spring Boot, jdk 11 (using
inside docker) project to Eclipse 2019 (2021), in Ubuntu, instead when
importing to Inteelij IDEA Community or NetBeans IDEs they do
not produce the same set of after-import errors as in Eclipse.
The Spring Boot is multimodule maven projects and two child
modules give such 2 "problems" in appropriate problems tab:
The project was not built since its build path is incomplete.
Cannot find the class file for java.lang.Object. Fix the build
path then try building this project
Next 2 errors are produced in two classes of aforementioned
maven modules:
The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is
indirectly referenced from required .class files
Manipulation with adding JDK 11 to submodules buildpath
just leads to the thousands of problems. Also it is
got when I use Eclipse-File-Maven-Update.
Moreover when I try to edit most of existing classes or add new ones
I got red underline that tells
Implicit super constructor Object() is undefined for default
constructor. Must define an explicit constructor
. So almost no opportunity to use Eclipse
even at prebuild stage as docker-compose should run build and
run. Indeed I noted that such issue is produced just when project
also uses modules (module-info files introduced in java9).
When I import project on jdk 8 (even not installed on
system), or even on jdk11 without module-info files all
is fine in Eclipse after import.
Another difference is that of when I use problem old no module
project the Build Path is composed with jre environment 8 and
maven dependency items, but when using
"module-info" project the Build path contains -module path,
and -classpath. So I even do not know where to add jre 11,
indeed adding does not resolve issue, just make more errors.
So what is the resolution of the case??? What settings to do
in Eclipse?
I'm using Eclipse Oxygen.1 release 4.7.1 and I'm running jdk and jre version 9 64-bit on a MacOS Sierra system. I imported a project downloaded from the internet and it's showing 2 errors:
1) The project was not built since its build path is incomplete. Cannot find the class file for java.lang.Object. Fix the build path then try building this project
2) The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files
Has anyone ever experienced this? It must be a bug with Eclipse because all I did was import the project and it should work fine. I tried several ways to debug like clean the project and remove the JRE system library then add it again and refresh. Also tried restarting Eclipse several times and restarting my computer. Even reinstalled the JDK and re-downloaded and imported the project a few times. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you.
This is a rarely occurring bug in eclipse. Here are the steps to solve it, straight from this answer:
Close the project and reopen it.
Clean the project (It will rebuild the buildpath hence reconfiguring with the JDK libraries)
OR
Delete and Re-import the project and if necessary do the above steps again.
I'm getting this error
Error:java: Fatal Error: Unable to find package java.lang in classpath or bootclasspath
in IntelliJ when I try to build/compile any project. Something that should be stated here is that NetBeans, Eclipse and even the javac command line can compile, build, and execute the same project without errors. This is why I suspect that the problem lies with IntelliJ, all other IDEs work well.
In IntelliJ I already:
Restarted, reinstalled
Invalidate Caches / restarted
Deleted / readded the JDK in Project JDK
Deleted / readded the JDK in Platform Settings
Rebuild / recompile
In Windows I already:
Deleted / Reinstalled Java SDK
Deleted / Readded the JAVA_HOME, PATH and CLASSPATH on System Variables
Tried the above on User Variables
Deleted and reinstalled IntelliJ IDEA
I already seached for issues like this on the Internet, here on Stack Overflow I found:
Question #1 | Question #2 | Question #3 | Question #4 | Question #5
And 30+ sites, and tried every answer...
Here you can see my IntelliJ Project Structure the last time that I tried to build/compile
I was using Java 1.8 when I got this error, after some hours, I installed Java 1.7 and the project worked fine. Maybe IntelliJ doesn't support Java 1.8?
Anyway, it would be great if anyone knew a way to make Java 1.8 work with IntelliJ.
I just spent quite few hours on this and found a solution which might work for you as well. IntelliJ seems to have a bug which expects the JDK to be in a different directory than is specified. I followed these steps:
open intelliJ, click help -> show log in explorer
modify build-log/build-log.xml and change <priority value="info" /> to <priority value="debug" />, you may have to run the editor as an administrator
run the compilation which fails with "Error:java: Fatal Error: Unable to find..."
open build-log/build.log and search for rt.jar, you should find it in a block with a set of other JRE libraries and the directory which points to the file should be wrong
In my case the JDK is included in D:\Development\software\jdk1.8.0_20, while the log points to C:\Users\Vladimir\Development\software\jdk1.8.0_20
I fixed the issue by copying my JRE to the place which is expected in the log. And just like in your case this seems to only happen with JDK 1.8.
The problem comes from IntelliJ bug (existing at least in version 14).
It happens when your JDK directory is under the user profile directory. For example, JDK located in this directory (for Windows):
C:\Users\myuser\jdk1.8.0_20
will be stored in IntelliJ internal configuration (file 'jdk.table.xml') as:
$USER_HOME$\jdk1.8.0_20
But your %USER_PROFILE% environment variable could point at some other (non default) location. Then IntelliJ will look at the wrong directory.
Possible fix:
Install your JDK at different directory, which is outside your profile directory. Like:
C:\Programs\jdk1.8.0_20
Then register this JDK for use in your IntelliJ project settings.
I encountered this on Arch Linux 4.16.13 with IntelliJ 2018.1.4 after importing a Java project using Gradle. I made sure that there is a registered JDK in "Project Settings" -> "Project" but IntelliJ was unable to find the classes from the JDK, java.util.List for example.
The solution was to add a new JDK entry at the same path as the existing JDK (/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk in my case). This will cause IntelliJ to put the files under jre onto the classpath whereas with the old JDK entry, only the files under lib were on the classpath.
Had the same problem. Simple fix to others in case the other answers are complex.
Go to File -> Project Structure
Under Project SDK, choose new and add another JDK.
The default use in my case was 1.8 that was of build 181. I choose the 1.8.0_192 I had recently downloaded.
After applying, the project loads itself.
When I re-ran the test, it works!
If this problem occurs when importing a project in netbeans then try to create a new project then check the properties of your new created project and match those properties with the project that you imported in my case there was a difference between target of android package version.
From what I understood, debugging for hours, the problem is with the location where the jdk1.8 gets installed(/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_92.jdk/Contents/Home), instead of under System/Library).
So the following has to be done to fix in intellij
1. For an existing project, right click and select module settings, and SDK and add 1.8 as a version.
2. Using a terminal go to ~/Library/Preferences//options/. Remove the old JDK specific lines in jdk.table.xml. Update the default version in project.default.xml
Clean you project in intellij and build. It should use the new jdk and sync.
I'm working on a spigot plugin for Minecraft in Eclipse and the javadoc for spigot suddenly stopped working. If I hover over a spigot method I get the error mentioned in the title. Java internal methods display the javadoc just fine, and so do any methods in my classes that I've added javadoc for. The spigot javadoc location is set to https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/, which is loading fine, and validates just fine.
After doing a little research I found this issue is usually caused by unbound or non-JDK references in Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs. I removed all java JDKs and JREs on my system, installed the latest JDK 8u77, and added it in installed JREs. It is the only one listed and it is ticked. The path is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_77, which is my only JDK installation. I even tried installing the latest version of Eclipse Mars 2 to a different folder, and running clean on my workspace. Not sure what to try next.
Using the offline docs worked! Go to The Maven repository for Spigot.
In the bottom section that says snapshots, click the + next to "org", then "bukkit", then "bukkit" again. Then click the + next to the version of Bukkit you are using. The first file listed should end in "-javadoc.jar". Right-click this file and hit download. Save it to the resources folder of your project. Then edit the javadoc location of the bukkit jar in your build path, and set it to "Javadoc in archive". Browse to the file you just downloaded, select it, and save. Working 100% for me now!
The spigot javadocs are in that same Maven repository, so if you're using spigot just open the spigotmc folder instead of bukkit.
Not really an answer, but using IntelliJ should solve the issue. As for why Eclipse can't handle this, I really don't know. It happens to me too, and not only: https://bukkit.org/threads/unknown-javadoc-format-eclipse.414506/ However, other libs seem to work.
This question already has answers here:
Developing for Android in Eclipse: R.java not regenerating
(64 answers)
Closed 9 years ago.
Did a fresh install of Eclipse, JDK and android-sdk.
I am currently receiving this error when creating a new project
[2010-09-26 16:07:56 - Test] ERROR: Unable to open class file C:\workspace\Test\gen\com\example\test\R.java: No such file or directory
What's the reason for this and how do I fix it?
Eclipse Helios 32 bit
java version "1.6.0_21"
Android sdk API 8
P.S. I'm new to Android development.
EDIT: I tried most of your solutions, but nothing worked. So I started using my friend's install of Eclipse Ganymede.
I have had same issue, all what I needed to do, was create project and restart eclipse.
//Edit: Complete collapsing of "Package" tree works as well.
This is a mighty annoying error.
It happens 100% of the time when I create a new android project.
What seems to work for me is to just delete the file (which DOES exist and is accessible by my user), then hit build, and it will regenerate it and stop moaning.
It's clearly a bug as there are too many people getting it simply by filling in the boxes in the new project dialog (like me) without even modifying any code!
Have a look at your console. It is an aapt aborted error. Since aapt is the tool that auto-generates R.java, therefore, R.java was not getting generated.
Since R.java is a auto-generated file that stores information about your drawables you should rebuild your project. Before that have a look at your layout xml files and check them for errors.
Notice that Project -> Build All should be selected. Also try to run your project.
Removing Read Only attribute on Eclipse workspace directory and Project->Clean->Build Project
did the trick for me. I then clicked on the project directory from within Eclipse and did a F5 (Refresh) . R.java was generated in the gen folder.
I had a similar error on the creation of new projects myself. After messing around I tried moving the R.Java file into the same location as my projects java file (the src file). Eclipse then saw I removed the R.Java file from its location and created another and that seemed to clean up the error.....I dont know if it was because eclipse rebuilt the file and then saw it or what but that seemed to work for now.
After creating the Project, Right click the Project Folder within the Project Explorer on the Left Tab of Eclipse.
Click on Source->Format.
The Console will say:
[2010-11-24 11:57:42 - YourProject] R.java was modified manually! Reverting to generated version!
Then you're good to go. Try running your Project and it will compile.
Check your imports. If this has sneaked in, then delete it.
import android.R;
Had a almost identical issue with Eclipse Helios 64 bit on Linux, but I had the "1.6.0" API selected like you. The bizarre thing was I could type;
cat <the path it was moaning about>
in a console it would display correctly.
I created a new AVD which used Android 2.1, the issue magically vanished. Perhaps it's a bug in Android SDK or Eclipse?
Right click on your project name in package explorer. Then click 'Validate'. It will be fine.
Here is how to fix it:
Go to your "workspace" folder and make sure it's not "read-only"
Eclipse Menu > Projects > clean
Had the same issue.I was able to solve it by doing the following:
go to Window/Preferences/Java/Build Path
select 'Folders' and change the output folder to 'gen' (this is where Android looks for the generated java files,but the default in eclipse is 'bin').
restart Eclipse
Windows 7,Eclipse 3.5.2
Configure buildpath.. check android , it worked, of course i followed one of the posts mentioned above window, preferences, java, java build path and selected project,
then created a project, and tried to build same error, then i checked build path and saw android is unchecked, checked it and build again, it works!
I had this exact same problem with no helpful errors. finally, I tried deleting my debug keystore and it worked:
rm ~/.android/debug.keystore
I had seen people mention that, but I figured it wasn't my problem because I wasn't getting any errors relating to the debug keystore. I found the answer here:
"Debug certificate expired" error in Eclipse Android plugins
apparently the debug keystore is only valid for one year.
I would say that once you have created your project and you've mention the R.class error --> just restart the Eclipse IDE and everything will be fine ;)
1.-Open Eclipse
2.-Open Window/Preference
3.-Expand JAVA option
4.-Select Build Path
5.-Check the option "Projec"t and uncheck "folder" options
6.-Click on OK
7.-Restart eclipse IDE
Let's go to code !!
This problem can be solved by merely cleaning and rebuilding the project. How ever there is a link to the latest version of Eclipse for Android.
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Here is a link to Android Tutorial with Eclipse
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html
In mac,
I select Project>Clean
after that, i unchecked Build Automatically
then i run the project and it works :)
Windows 7 64bit, run eclipse as administrator, solved the problem for me.
In my case there was no gen folder after pressing clear...
To solve it, i created a new gen file, then when to Build Path => Configure Path, and pressed ok.
All went smooth after that :-)
Following steps are done as solutions:
1. Collapse the project tree structure
2. Go to the workspace and remove the readonly permission of the workspace.
3. right click "default.properties" and go to properties and uncheck the readonly permission in eclipse.( this is done when the workspace shows build error even though there are no compilation issues)